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2018 Sep 25
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How to troubleshoot admin auth values in url format http://admin:password@icecast.org:1234
...... etc Other times, I can't, and I can't figure out why not. 1. Does admin:password in this scenario (a web browser request) need to be encoded to Base64, or can it be the "normal / plaintext" i.e. "admin" ? Reading the code on Github, in src/connection.c static int _check_pass_http it appears it calls a method util_base64_decode, so it appears it is trying to decode it. but sometimes this works from a web browser request when username:password is typed in plaintext (not base64encoded) does the browser automatically encode it behind the scenes before the network tranmission...